Tag: girl scouts
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Small moments. Big memories | Marie’s Musings
Editor’s note: Ruth Wiseman has written a monthly column the past several years giving us a perspective from a young person in Teller County. Ruth has headed off to college, so she is discontinuing her column. Luckily, the Wiseman family is both large and talented and Ruth’s sister, Marie, is taking her place. By Marie…
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In one year, thousands of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts had memorable Colorado Springs visits
Scrapbooks and boxes of memories hold special older-family-member keepsakes from historic visits to Colorado Springs during two large Boy Scout and Girl Scout anniversaries in 1959 and 1960. Perhaps the next generations, possibly many of them Scouts as well, have seen the pictures and heard the stories and visited the sites just piecing together pages…
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Girl Scout Cookie Season helps girls “Unbox the Future”
Photo courtesy of Girl Scouts of Colorado Did you know that the Girl Scout Cookie Program has been changing the world for more than a century? The deliciousness you find inside – from classics like Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, Adventurefuls and other fan favorites — build possibilities outside, enabling girls to learn, grow and thrive as…
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PHOTOS: Girl Scout cookie distribution kicks off, starting season of socially-distanced sales
Girl Scout cookie season officially started on Saturday morning, amid the smell of mint, lemon and chocolate boxes stacked to the sky in the parking lot at the Rocky Mountain Vibes stadium. This year, cookie sales will be different than usual, with socially-distanced sales being the primary mode of purchasing and delivery. The famous sweets…
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PHOTOS: Girl Scout Cookies Arrive in Colorado Springs
A total of 23,000 cases and 276,000 packages of Girl Scout cookies were distributed to Girl Scouts troops during the start of the 2020 Girl Scout Cookie Program in the parking lot of the Rocky Mountain Vibes stadium on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2020. Girl Scouts will be begin selling their popular cookies on Sunday.(Chancey Bush/…
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Driver was huffing before crash that killed 3 Girl Scouts, parent in Wisconsin
LAKE HALLIE, Wis. — A young driver was inhaling chemical vapors, or huffing, just prior to striking and killing three Girl Scouts and a mother and critically injuring a fourth girl who had been picking up trash along a rural Wisconsin highway, police said Monday. Colten Treu, 21, sped off after the collision in Lake…